Calendar-pad support.



I J. R. WILSON. CALENDAR PAD SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1910.

1,008,509. v Patented Nov. 14, 1911;

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JAMES It. WILSON, 0F AUSTIN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 S. D. CHILDS & 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, .A. CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CALENDAR-PAD SUPPORT,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES R. VVILsON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Austin, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendar- Pad Supports; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the numbers of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to calendar pad supports, and has for its object to provide certain improvements in the construction of the same as will be hereinafter more definitely pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof with the binding link or loop in section and the pad removed.

As shown in the drawings: 1, indicates a flat plate of metal or other suitable material shaped to convenient (and, if desired, ornamental) form, and provided at its rear end with downturned legs 2, integral therewith, and at its forward end with downturned shorter legs 3, of similar character. The legs, as shown, are each provided with a rubber tip or cap 4, to prevent the legs scratching the desk or surface on which supported.

At the rear or upper end of the sheet or plate 1, the metal is stamped inwardly and downwardly to afford a transverse aperture in the plate of oblong form, as shown in Fig. 2, the metal of said plate being severed along the sides of said aperture and struck downwardly to afford a downwardly and forwardly curving tongue 5, as shown in Fig. 1, and in dotted lines in Fig. 2. Fitting in said aperture, and normally supported upon said tongue 5, is an oblong link 6, of sheet metal, formed, as shown, of a strip or plate of any resilient metal of a width equal to the transverse dimension of said aperture in the plate and conforming at its lower end to the curvature of said tongue 5. As shown, the ends of the strip forming said link are complementally shaped to mutually engage to lock the link in the closed position. For this purpose, as shown, one of the ends 7, of said plate is provided with a longitudinal groove and the other 8, with a V shaped bead, adapted to engage and interlock in said groove so as to hold said link normally closed. The resiliency, however, of the strip or plate forming the link is such that when the ends are released from each other, the longer end 8, springs outwardly, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, to afford a sufficient space to permit the removal or insertion of the calendar block 9.

The operation is as follows: Having secured the calendar block on the binding link 6, the lower end of the link is inserted in the aperture in the base plate 1, as shown in Fig. 1, and supported on the forwardly curved tongue 5, integral with the plate. In this manner the pad is inclined conveniently for use. When the next succeeding page is to be exposed, the link and pad are lifted from the base and the sheet previously exposed is turned back around the link to a position beneath the pad, and this also is repeated with each succeeding page until at the end of the year (or the period for which the pad is intended for use) the leaves of the pad are again arranged in the same relation as when the leaves were first begun at the beginning of the year.

Should it ever be necessary to refer to the data on the underturned pages, this may be immediately accomplished by lifting the pad and link from the base, when, of course, the data on either side of the pad may be readily inspected. When this is done, if desired, the pad may be turned over so that which was formerly the top of the pad becomes the bottom and the pages containing the data for previous dates is thus exposed at the top.

Of course, the particular form of the base or support may vary, and, while I have described tne same as constructed of sheet metal, it may be otherwise constructed, and if desired, other features of the invention may be modified without departing from the principles of this invention as claimed. I have shown but one and that the preferred) construction and I therefore do not purpose limiting myself otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention:

In combination, a calendar pad, a binding link having a curved end, an inclined base or support therefor formed of sheet metal and having a transverse aperture near the upper end thereof for receiving said link, supporting legs for said upper end, and a downwardly extending and forwardly curved tongue at the upper. edge of said aperture acting to support said link in a position partly projected above said base and conforming to the configuration of the curved end of said binding link contacting therewith, said tongue being formed of the material displaced from said base in form- 10 ing said transverse aperture.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES R. WILSON.

Witnesses:

LAWRENCE REIBSTEIN, CHARLES W. HILLS, Jr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

